Baseball: Area Twins fans celebrate a half-century

Baseball: Area Twins fans celebrate a half-century

MINNEAPOLIS — A spur-of-the-moment decision in 1975 turned into 50 years of memories at the ballpark for Steve Ellingboe and Roger Faber. In 1975, Ellingboe and Faber made a trip down to the Twin Cities so Faber could visit his girlfriend. The two became friends at Willmar Community College (now Ridgewater College) and played against each other in high-school baseball. Ellingboe grew up in Sunburg and was a 1973 Kerkhoven-Sunburg High School gra…